The Excellence and Value of Wisdom

Proverbs 8:5-11

Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart,

Hearken, for noble things I speak, And the opening of my lips is uprightness.

For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips is wickedness.

In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse.

All of them are plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge.

Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold.

For better is wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it.